"Your Majesty, the General Staff reported that the people of Kokan had already been hooked."

A girl in a red military uniform and wearing the rank of major said to Yang Feng kneel down on one knee.

"How is the situation on the battlefield between the Two Rivers?"

Yang Feng asked while admiring the fireworks that were seeing him off on the shore.

He was standing on the deck of the Oriental, blowing the evening breeze of early spring, and behind him were rows of female soldiers wearing red wool naval uniforms, each of whom was tall and beautiful, with hands on his back, with a slender waist on his white belt, and a fedora hat with the same red belt on his head. Various golden signs and buttons of the same color shine on his body. A winding golden dragon embroidered on his bulging chest represents the special identity of their emperor's personal guard...

Well, His Majesty the Emperor has begun his tour.

On this giant cruise ship, the eighteen concubines, one hundred and fifty palace maids, and one thousand sailors, all women, no man, and not even eunuchs. He was the only man on the entire ship, completely satisfying the ideals of the king of the Kingdom of Women. Next, he will start his patrol with more than a thousand beauties, from the far North Pole to the Antarctic. Of course, it is not the only ship. The four newly built Qi Jiguang-class cruisers of the Navy will all be accompanied by the four Qi Jiguang-class cruisers. For this reason, they have specially built supply stations in various places, and even built to the Antarctic at the farthest.

"The Russian army has arrived in Samarkand, and the Bukhara and Shiva coalition forces have reached the western foothills of the Tianshan Mountains, but there has been wind and snow there recently, so there is no real attack."

The girl said.

"Send a newspaper to Gao Huai, asking him to tell Lu Yi not to worry, and lead the people of Haohan to go deeper, and don't rush to close the door before they cross Wensu."

Yang Feng said.

"Respect the order!"

The girl immediately agreed and then returned to the cabin to send a report.

Wensu is the boundary that Yang Feng set for the people of Haohan. This ancient city in the Western Regions is the current capital of Shannan Province. It is located in the central part of Shannan. To the north is the vast Tianshan Mountains that are simply inaccessible. To the south is the Takramagan Desert or the Jixi Desert on the Ming Dynasty map. At this time, the only source of water, the Tarim River, had already dried up. It can be said that both sides are real dead ends. Tens of thousands of Haohan cavalry who came in from the east were completely sealed in this area. The logistics was cut off and there was no food to find. If you don’t surrender, you will have to starve to death. If you surrender, you will be a slave in the Ming Dynasty for your whole life. Tens of thousands of free strong labor will definitely make the people from all over the south of Shannan cheer.

And more importantly, all the young and middle-aged people in Kokan were taken away at this moment. The country had a total population of hundreds of thousands, and the army of 60,000 to 70,000 were almost half of the young and middle-aged people. After their entire army was wiped out, the remaining Fergana Basin, which is said to be the richest in Central Asia, was left, but only the elderly, weak, women and children were waiting for the Ming army to come over and see them.

"Who will be lucky tonight?"

Emperor Yang was struggling.

Just as he was struggling with whom he was tonight, Kokhan Rahman was struggling to look at the Weitou City in the distance.

Of course he was not struggling to visit any beauty in this city. In fact, he had just returned from a defeat in front of this not-so-large castle. He dispatched an army of 20,000 at one time, and among them were the precious rifled rifled guns given to him by the Russians, and even the elite troops armed with ten rifled guns, and then they were determined to launch the most fierce attack, and then...

Then he lost again.

His rifled gun had to be placed in a place where he could aim directly due to the quality of the gunner. As a result, a round of shells was fired, and then the shells on the opposite side flew over like eyes, and then the ten cannons were directly blown into parts. Unfortunately, he went around for hundreds of miles before he worked hard to pull these cannons.

The cavalry without artillery protection, once again, like under the city of Kashi, could only start charging towards Weitou City with their own courage. As for the result, they inevitably bumped into the outer wire mesh, and the wire mesh fixed with wooden stakes crossed in front of them like iron walls. This thing is simply a nightmare for cavalry, or the nemesis of the nomadic people. Since its appearance, from the east to the west, from the brave Mongolian cavalry to the Arab zhen warriors, all of them have fallen into sand. This time, there was no exception. When the speed of the cavalry was limited, the originally silent city wall turned into an erupting volcano, and the storm-like bullets instantly made his warriors blood flow into a river. He really didn't understand where the Ming army sent so many reinforcements, which was not scientific at all.

There are four garrisons in Shannan, and he has known this for a long time that the Ming army has always been these garrisons over the years.

But Kashi City can be inferred from the flames during shooting that there must be at least 4,000 defenders there, and Yutou City is even more terrifying. He calculated that it was seven or eight thousand. Even if he could still arm some militias, this number was very abnormal. After all, this castle is so big that it can live in more than 20,000 people. After 20,000 people, it is impossible to get seven or eight thousand guns after deducting children, women and old people. What's more, there is no garrison in Weitou City according to the information.

This is really unscientific!

He was vaguely panicked. This situation was too strange. It was dangerous to continue to go deeper without figuring out this point. It was only a few hundred miles away from Haohan. His camel fleet could barely guarantee supplies, but continue to move forward to Gumo and Wensu areas. This line would be very long. If the supply cannot be obtained locally, then the transportation of the camel fleet alone would be absolutely not enough. Once the Ming army launched a counterattack, he would be in danger of collapse on the entire line. If he was blocked here at that time, he would have no way to go to heaven and earth. He knew very well that the environment here was a cage. As long as the Shule pass was blocked, even the cavalry would not be able to escape from this corridor between the Tianshan Mountains and the desert.

"Khan, we have caught a Han escape slave!"

At this time, an officer reported to him.

"Bring it here right now!"

Rahman said.

In fact, there are a large number of slaves and people in Shannan Province. Although the number of people in the province is only more than 700,000, there are nearly 200,000 slaves alone, and there are all kinds of skin colors. However, the people are mainly cheap Japanese slaves, and the people are the Mongols of the Junggar tribe. However, after nearly twenty years of assimilation, the Junggar people here have basically converted to the holy religion. In addition to the ancestral status, there is also a civil status in the other aspects, and there is no difference between them and the Chinese people. Because of the intermarriage relationship between them, most of them have gradually become Chinese people.

Although the Ming Dynasty system, when the people belong to the people, they become people when they marry, and when the people belong to the people, they are demoted to the people, but isn’t there anyone else who married into the family?

Like those dinosaurs that are difficult to take action, old widows who have died, and those who are disabled and cannot get married. These are all those young men from the people who are in the country. After they get married, they transform into Chinese people. This is a good opportunity for carp to jump over the dragon gate. As for the child and his wife's surname, it is not worth mentioning. Let alone the child, they even have their own wife's surname!

This is also a component of the growth rate of the Ming Dynasty forty-one thousandths of the population. This amazing growth rate is not all born, and there are many assimilation numbers. Especially, almost half of the population of Goryeo has become Chinese people now. In less than thirty years, there will be basically no people there. Even a large part of the Goryeo royal family has integrated into Chinese through aristocratic intermarriage.

Then he was brought to Rahman. He was lying on the ground and staring at him with horror. He was wearing the standard gray cloth clothes of Ming slaves. In fact, it was the jacket of a bannerman, a fur hat on his head, and a small braid behind him. This was easy for the master to grab them when he whipped them, and just whipped them directly. This was the standard appearance of Ming slaves.

“Checked?”

Rahman said.

“Checked.”

The officer said.

"How many defenders are there in the city?"

Rahman asked with a murderous expression on his face.

"If you say goodbye, there will be a total of 8,000!"

The slave said tremblingly.

"You are lying!"

Rahman sneered.

The officer immediately roared, then pulled out the scimitar and slashed it down, but stopped when the blade touched the slave's neck, who was so scared that he immediately peed his pants.

"Master, every sentence of me is true!"

He lay on the ground and cried.

"To be honest, how many defenders are there? As long as I say it, I can bring you a large bounty and take you out of this country."

Rahman said in a different tone.

"Master, it's really eight thousand!"

The slave said with a sad face.

"There are only four garrisons in Shannan, and there are only 8,000 people in total. Where did they get 8,000 people to guard the lieutenant? Are the entire Ming army in Shannan here?"

Rahman sneered.

"Master, they still have reserves. There are only six reserve brigades in Shannan alone. Usually, they are ordinary people. As long as they receive orders, they can be summoned to form an army. Whoever is a soldier or an official is determined. Even guns and cannons are gathered in warehouses in various places. Just call people and open the warehouse and send them down. Those officials are retired veterans who have fought wars. The guns are better than regular soldiers. Even guns and cannons are not the latest ones. There are two such brigades in Weitou City."

The slave said.

"I dare to lie and I will dismember you!"

Rahman gasped and shouted.

"Master, I really didn't lie. The slave family is from Japan. There are also wives, children and children in the family. They were caught by pirates and sold here. They were also yanned as slaves. They suffered all the hardships every day. They dreamed of escaping from the sea of ​​suffering. This time, they took advantage of their chance to escape into the mountains. They were hungry and wanted to find an opportunity to leave these demons. I was grateful for my help. How could I lie to you? If you don't believe me, look at the wound on my body. They beat me up!"

The slave cried and took off his clothes to show the shocking wounds.

“So where are the other reserves?”

Rahman said with satisfaction.

In fact, after confirming that this person was a slave, he was basically not worried about being deceived. After all, it is well known how cruel the Ming Dynasty treated slaves, especially the issue of yan slaughter, which was even more crazy. They could not be loyal to the Ming Dynasty. If they were treated like this, they could still do such a life-long work for the Ming Dynasty, which would be too cheap.

"I don't know, but the slaves know that this is the case here, but their reserve brigades are all collected locally, so there shouldn't be less reserved for so many people in the west."

The slave said.

"Take him down and get him some food."

Rahman said.

After the slave was taken down, he immediately said to the officer: "Transfer the order, give up Weitou and go east, and attack Gumo directly. One of the six reserve brigades must be in Kashi. In addition, the garrisons of the Khotan are in Shule, Shache is in one garrison, and there are three brigades and one garrison in Gumo and Wensu, which is exactly three lines of defense. But there is no army further east. As long as we cross Gumo, we can break through Kucha to get supplies, and then attack Yanqi, and the Cheshi goes straight to Luntai. At this time, the Russians must have launched an attack. The Ming army in Longcheng is unable to return to aid, and they cannot arrive in time after the heavy snow is blocked. Our light cavalry can attack at full speed for up to two months, and there is enough time to return after destroying their steel factory."

"Abide by the order!"

The officer agreed to leave immediately.

Rahman looked at the wind and snow outside with confidence, as if he saw the scene of his army galloping.

"Are you leaving?"

In the warm boiler room behind the Weitou County Yamen, the county magistrate guarded the fire, gnawing the roast lamb legs while asking the captain of the county guard team who came in. There was no reserve brigade in the city, and there was only a county guard team here, but it was a little larger. The total scale of the Weitou City and the settlements outside the city were evacuated, a total of 25,000 residents, and men and women armed a total of 8,000 reserves, and then formed a county guard team, plus a reserve artillery battalion.

Although they are all militias, their combat effectiveness is still strong. As long as they don’t leave the city, they will be able to guard the castle under the protection of the barbed wire walls. There is enough food to eat for a year and enough ammunition in the city. There is no need to worry about the shortage of supplies. This is the case in the castles in various prefectures and counties in Shannan.

"Let's go, the main force of Haohan has set off and left. Only about 5,000 cavalry are left. I have to say that your move is good. If they really go out and attack continuously, we will really have to ask for help from the provincial capital in the end."

The latter said.

"It's not my trick, but Priest Xu's methods!"

The county magistrate said to an old man wearing a green sermon robe opposite him who looked kind-hearted and fairy-like.

"The Holy Lord said that there is no difference in religion. The brothers of the dog are sincere and loyal to the Holy Lord, and are willing to risk their lives to take on this important task. His actions are enough to move the gods in heaven. If they can return, we need to welcome them with generous gifts and treat them with brothers from now on. If they are unfortunately killed, we should also engrave them in the list of heroes of the Ming Dynasty every year. We must not despise them for their origins."

The old man said with a solemn look on his face.

"The Holy Lord is above, I wish the dogs and brothers a good person and heavenly appearance!"

The county magistrates quickly changed into the same solemn expression, stood up, bowed and said, bent down.
Chapter completed!